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Finova appoints Hamza Behzad as business development director

Finova has appointed Hamza Behzad as business development director and joins the cloud-based mortgage...

Mortgage approvals on track to top 780,000 in 2025 as market confidence builds

Mortgage approvals are set to surpass the 780,000 mark by the end of 2025,...

UK housing market rebounds: busiest May for home sales since 2021 boom

The UK housing market recorded its strongest May in four years, with the number...

Conveyancing Alliance appoints new sales director

Conveyancing Alliance has named Mark Richards as its new sales director, promoting him from...

British households still reeling from post-pandemic financial fallout

Five years after the first national lockdown, new research reveals that the financial scars...

Reward Funding retains Sunday Times’ accolade

Reward Funding has once again secured a place on The Sunday Times'  list of...

Roma Finance expands team following new £100m funding line

Roma Finance has expanded its team with six new appointments following a period of...

Market Harborough BS once again named among UK’s best places to work

Market Harborough Building Society has been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places...

Family BS cuts rates and adds ‘high-loan’ options

Family Building Society has launched a refreshed mortgage product range featuring rate reductions of...

Aldermore supports new student accommodation scheme in Northampton

Aldermore has provided a multi-million pound development loan to College Street Northampton LLP to...

The Cumberland strengthens support for SMEs with new lending criteria

The Cumberland Building Society has announced an expansion of its commercial lending criteria, signalling...

Peter Hale joins Afin Bank as head of finance ahead of launch

Peter Hale has been appointed head of finance at Afin Bank, the new UK...

Mortgage brokers report near-record confidence as market rebounds

Confidence among UK mortgage intermediaries has rebounded to near-record highs, according to the latest...

L&C Mortgages secures B Corp certification in sustainability milestone

L&C Mortgages has joined the ranks of certified B Corporations following its first assessment...

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Bridging the Pond: How large is the US bridging finance market, and compared to the UK?

When we first got started with LendInvest in the UK, post the financial crisis, bridging finance was a much more nascent product than it...

Passing the affordability exam

As teachers and students of various ages have spent August nervously opening exam results following years of study that will determine their ability to...

Investors are changing their approach – and lenders should too

The buy-to-let market never stands still, but the pace of change in recent years has been remarkable. The days of the so-called ‘accidental landlord’,...

Leasehold fees, specialists and the need to shop around

Leasehold properties account for around 20% of all dwellings in the UK, and while that figure may change in the future with government legislation...

Tuning into later life lending conversations

There are certain conversations in our profession that can genuinely change the course of a client’s life. Later life lending sits firmly in that...

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Rightmove warns property tax reforms could stall housing market

Rightmove has warned the government that proposed changes to property taxation risk distorting the...

Bradford retains crown as UK’s leading property hotspot

Bradford has once again been named the country’s most in-demand housing market, topping OnTheMarket’s...

Keystone reduces expat buy-to-let rates and adds new product

Keystone Property Finance has reduced rates across its expat buy-to-let range, cutting selected fixed...

Gatehouse cuts buy-to-let rental rates and eases paperwork

Gatehouse Bank has cut rental rates by 0.25% across its buy-to-let purchase plans for...